El last wednesday, Jon Rahm had the opportunity to meet one of his idols, the former basketball player Pau Gasol, at Real Club Valderrama. The winner of two NBA rings, “hooked” on golf since he was released from confinement, went to the San Roque field to play the Pro-Am of the Estrella Damm NA Andaluca Masters. It was the first time that Pau had participated in an event of these characteristics, and he was delighted after sharing a game with the golfer. Adri Arnaus and with Luis Figo.
At one point, a long-awaited encounter took place that was caught on camera. The current number one in the world golf ranking, Jon Rahm, and Pau Gasol, saw each other for the first time. A legend of the Spanish sport, like Pau, and the best golfer of the moment, had the pleasure of meeting. Curiously, Jon himself had told this newspaper just a week before that he wanted to meet the former Lakers. He was even made aware of the praise he had received from Michael Jordan, something unknown.
MARK I did not miss the opportunity to provide your cover to Pau and Jon, with the title, ‘TO KEEP WINNING’, and transmitting the idea of what the image of these two great athletes together means: ‘An image that symbolizes the relay in Spanish sport’.
Yesterday Jon, after finishing his participation in the Andalusian Masters after failing the cut, they asked him if you were really aware of the impact it has caused in these two weeks in Spain and what you thought about the cover of MARCA. “I have seen the photo, but not the headline,” acknowledged the winner of the US Open this year, to whom the background was explained.
“Pau has been there for many years and has done great things, and we have other athletes as well. That a sports newspaper like MARCA put me in that headline, I gladly accept it and hope to measure up. Excluding the weeks that come – he takes them off -, I will continue training to ensure that I continue to win titles and I continue to give Spain, and those who are watching golf at dawn, some exciting hours. Hopefully I can be as good an example as Pau has been “.
Jon also spoke of the importance of his figure in our country: “I have come, in addition to because I want to win, because I understand that, reached the level that I am, I can help Spanish golf. I came here [a Valderrama] to see the Volvo Masters as a child and I understand the impact you can have on a kid. I remember the signatures of players like the ones I had, that motivate you and maybe the next benchmark in Spanish golf is there. It is good that he comes and I am realizing the impact, that a little, in quotation marks, the “.
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